The Winery Terra Initia of Kakheti

Winery Terra Initia - Banovani White
The winery offers 16 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 4.1.
It is ranked in the top 12 of the estates of Kakheti.
It is located in Kakheti

The Winery Terra Initia is one of the world's great estates. It offers 16 wines for sale in of Kakheti to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Terra Initia wines

Looking for the best Winery Terra Initia wines in Kakheti among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Terra Initia wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Terra Initia wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top white wines of Winery Terra Initia

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Terra Initia

How Winery Terra Initia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Terra Initia

On the nose the white wine of Winery Terra Initia. often reveals types of flavors of citrus, lemon or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of citrus fruit, floral or acacia.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Terra Initia

  • 2018With an average score of 4.05/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.03/5
  • 2016With an average score of 3.96/5
  • 2015With an average score of 3.90/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Terra Initia.

  • Mtsvane Kakhuri
  • Rkatsiteli
  • Kisi
  • Khikhvi

Discovering the wine region of Kakheti

Kakheti is the most important wine region in Georgia in quantitative, qualitative and even historic terms. Almost three-quarters of the country's wine Grapes are grown here, on land that has been used for viticulture for thousands of years. Kakheti is home to some of the oldest human habitations in the entire Caucasus region, and archaeological findings have suggested that wine has been produced here for several thousand years. The region's strong relationship with wine and Vine was captured in Georgia's famous hymn 'Thou Art a Vineyard', written in the 12th Century by King Demetrius I.

A historical Georgian province, Kakheti is not an official administrative province in the modern day. Viniculturally speaking, the area is unofficially divided into several sub-regions, and even a number of microregions. This creates a huge variety of mesoClimates for viticulture with an equally large variety of grape varieties found throughout. The most significant of these Center around the villages of Tsinandali, Telavi, Gurajaani, Kvareli, Sagarejo and Sighnahi, which dot the banks of the Alazani River as it flows from the Caucasus Mountains to the Mingecevir reservoir in western Azerbaijan.

Kakheti has a transient continental climate with mild to subtropical temperatures as well as arid conditionds to Ample rainfall for viticulture. Predominately, viticultural areas have an arid climate with rainfall conserved to the winter months. Interestingly, in the particularly humid areas of Shida Kakheti, irrigation is required due to the high level of evapotranspiration. The nutrient-poor soils here are something of a trademark for viticulture as their discovery saw the early Georgian vignerons (as far back as 6000 BC) stumble across near-perfect Terroir millennia before the concept of terroir was formalized and given a name.

The top red wines of Winery Terra Initia

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Terra Initia

How Winery Terra Initia wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, lamb or spicy food such as recipes of sloth pork loin, lamb tagine with prunes and almonds or tripe in the style of caen.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Terra Initia

On the nose the red wine of Winery Terra Initia. often reveals types of flavors of black fruits, non oak or earth and sometimes also flavors of oak, black fruit or cherry.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Terra Initia

  • 2016With an average score of 4.31/5
  • 2018With an average score of 4.26/5
  • 2015With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2017With an average score of 4.04/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Terra Initia.

  • Saperavi
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Aleksandrouli
  • Mujuretuli

Discover the grape variety: Saperavi

Originally from Georgia - Kakhetie region - where it has been cultivated for a long time. This variety is found in many countries such as Russia, Bulgaria, the Caucasus and Crimean republics, etc. Care should be taken not to confuse it with others, which are admittedly quite similar, but which bear the name Saperavi, generally followed by another name. In France, the "real Saperavi" is practically unknown, it is however registered since November 2012 in the Official Catalogue of wine grape varieties list A1.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Terra Initia

Planning a wine route in the of Kakheti? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Terra Initia.

Discover the grape variety: Khikhvi

A very old variety grown most often in Kakhetia (Georgia). It can also be found in Moldavia, Ukraine, Dagestan, Central Asia... almost unknown in France.

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The word of the wine: Decanting

A sommelier uses a decanter to separate the clear wine from the solid parts in a bottle.